Author Affiliations +
Ariane Walz,* Christian Gloor,** Peter Bebi,* Andreas Fischlin,*** Eckart Lange,**** Kai Nagel,***** Britta Allgöwer**
*Ariane Walz, Peter BebiWSL–Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos, Switzerland. walz@slf.ch; bebi@slf.chAriane Walz is a geographer who did her doctoral research on land use change modeling within an integrated approach to regional development, within the NRP48 project ALPSCAPE.Peter Bebi is an environmental scientist with a special focus on mountain forests and interdisciplinary research (director of ALPSCAPE).
**Britta Allgöwer, Christian GloorGeography Department, GIS Division, University of Zurich, Winterthurer Strasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. britta@geo.unizh.ch; chgloor@geo.unizh.chBritta Allgöwer is a senior research scientist with a special focus on nature conservation, GIS, and disturbance dynamics research (director of IPODLAS).Christian Gloor is a computer scientist who did his doctoral research within the ALPSIM project on distributed intelligence in Multi-Agent Systems.
***Andreas FischlinTerrestrial Systems Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. andreas.fischlin@env.ethz.chAndreas Fischlin is a biologist with a strong focus on ecosystem and climate change modeling (co-director of IPODLAS). He was “Coordinating Lead Author” of the second book of the 4th United Nations Climate Report, produced by the IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize award together with Al Gore.
****Eckart LangeDepartment of Landscape, University of Sheffield, Floor 3, Arts Tower, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom. e.lange@sheffield.ac.ukEckart Lange is a landscape planner with a strong focus on visualization and participation for environmental decision-making (co-director of ALPSIM).
*****Kai NagelDepartment of Mechanical and Transport Engineering, TU Berlin, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. nagel@vsp.tu-berlin.deKai Nagel is a physicist and computer scientist with considerable expertise in complex systems modeling (co-director of ALPSIM).
